Tuesday, March 13, 2012

What is Carnivores?

A carnivore is an animal that gets food from killing and eating
other animals.

Carnivores generally eat herbivores, but
can eat omnivores, and occasionally other
carnivores. Animals that eat other animals, like carnivores and omnivores are
important to any ecosystem, because they keep other species from getting overpopulated.
Since carnivores have to hunt down and kill other animals they require a large
amount of calories. This means that they have to eat many other animals over
the course of the year. The bigger the carnivore, the more it has to eat. You
should make sure that you have many more herbivores and omnivores than carnivores.
You have several kinds of carnivores to choose from in this simulation, of
different sizes: